Ambiguity Quotes
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Ambiguity Quotes & Sayings
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When you are trying to sell a product like therapeutic transformation, there can be no ambiguity, no sense of anxiety, tension, or struggle.
— Michael S. Horton
In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.
— David Trimble
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'
— Steven Furtick
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
— Simone De Beauvoir
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
— Ann Nocenti
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
— Thomas Reid
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
— Adam Smith
Nobody knows what will happen after five minutes later! Strangely, this ambiguity makes life very interesting!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
And must I not conceal myself like one who has swallowed gold- lest my soul should be ripped up?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Even righteousness is an ambiguous thing.
— Nadia Hashimi
I don't have a distaste for ambiguity, in fact, ambiguity is what I think life is all about.
— Robert Rubin
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Ambiguity - the Devil's volleyball.
— Emo Philips
that anxiety has at its core disquietude caused by ambiguity and a strong inclination toward problem solving. When
— Kelly G. Wilson
Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.
— Geraldine Laybourne
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
— Bob Brookmeyer
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
— Kingman Brewster Jr.
Dealing with ambiguity is far easier if you learn how to enjoy it
— Anuranjita Kumar
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
— Paul Tillich
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
— Keith Richards
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
— Roger Von Oech
There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.
— Glen Cook
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
— R. Scott Bakker
The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.
— Ben Brantley
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film ... at least in Hollywood studio films.
— Richard LaGravenese
Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.
— Joseph Pearce
Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.
— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.
— John Ashbery
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.
— Amy Tan
Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition.
— Karen Armstrong
I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder.
— Raquel Cepeda
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.
— Deepak Chopra
when you hate daylight, when you hate anything, you will develop a certain ambiguity about life and you get reckless in your habits.
— Thom Jones
This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.
— Jim Blinn
I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
— Vernon A. Walters
The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.
— Brad Warner
VUCA World - an environment of nonstop volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
— Chris Ertel
I like middles ... It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
— John Updike
I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.
— Helena Rubinstein
The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.
— Hugh S. Johnson
Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
— Tony Gilroy
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
— Alexander Haig
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
— Richard Rohr
Ambiguity distracts the conscious mind.
— Franz Anton Mesmer II
I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.
— Richard Lugar
While we mortals fumble through ambiguity, he never loses his harmony #MyExperiencewith498A
— Ravi Ranjan
You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did
— Elliot Perlman
The truth is, all of life is a grand, blooming ambiguity.
— James Hollis
Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.
— Mason Cooley
Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.
— Emo Philips
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
— Amy Plum
Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
— Skeet Ulrich
You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.
— Jonathan R. Miller
Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.
— Michael Horton
Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.
— C. G. Jung
But our brains are always crushing ambiguity into choices.
— David Eagleman
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.
— Edward De Bono
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
— John Le Carre
Your essential emotional tone - at ease in your deepest purpose or fearful in the ambiguity of your intent - becomes part of your children's home.
— David Deida
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:
— James Hollis
The ambiguity of flesh made for a vastness of possibility that simply could not exist in a binary world.
— Orson Scott Card
Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.
— John Bolton
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
— Terence McKenna
I am much better now at ambiguities.
— Saul Bellow
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
— John Crowley
As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.
— Michael Fassbender
We emerge from our Cloud of Ambiguity when we are ready or willing to let go of what has held us back.
— Lisa A. Mininni
Ambiguity begets participation.
— Daniel J. Levitin
The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
— Nancy Kress
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity
— Sigmund Freud
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
— Felix Frankfurter
Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.
— Brian Chesky
Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.
— William Safire
The enemy of accountability is ambiguity
— Patrick Lencioni
I have never had a problem dealing in areas of ambiguity. I can make a decision and not have it all lined up just right.
— Jerry Jones
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.
— William Empson
Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.
— Bert Dodson
Give me ambiguity or something else.
— Lynne Sears Williams
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that ... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
— Mohsin Hamid
He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
— Lionel Shriver
Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.
— Scott Farris
In general, silence often reflects ambiguity on the part of the listener as the observer wishes to understand the other's experience.
— Sandra Leanne Bosacki
It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself.
— Pawan Mishra
The obvious matters are more imperceptible today.
— Pawan Mishra